[Geany-devel] plugin dev question

[Chuck Tilbury]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 11 March 2010 11:40, Chuck Tilbury <chucktilbury at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> <snip>
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>>> Aha,
>>>
>>> I assume this means that you have more than one Geany at different
>>> prefixes?
>>>
>>> There is a problem with plugins in that situation, the autoconf/make
>>> builder gets the wrong prefix and so makes the plugins with the wrong
>>> version.
>>> But since you made the demoplugin separately it works ok.
>>>
>>> This bug has been raised to the autoconf maintainer but I've not seen it
>>> fixed.  AFAIK the WAF builder works ok so you might want to use that.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Lex
>>>
>>> PS ignore my comment about .lo and .la files, I wasn't paying attention,
>>> they are of course libtool files.  But they "shouldn't" be needed to run
>>> just to link.
>>>
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>> So I will clean out the previous install and reinstall.  That should fix
>> the issue, correct?
>>
>> The only files that I know of are in these areas:
>> /usr/bin/geany
>> /usr/lib/geany/
>> /usr/lib/geany-plugins/
>> /home/me/.config/geany/
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>> Is there anything else?
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>> -=c=-
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> You could try make uninstall :-)
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> Well a nice clean install allways helps :-), but it HAS to be the same
> version as you are building the plugin for since the autotools is hard coded
> to use the standard Geany prefix for plugins.
>
> As I said above I am told by "Prolific Plugin Programmers" that the waf
> version will handle plugins properly to any prefix, but I havn't used it
> yet.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> PS please reply to the list, not to me, so other people can see and
> interrupt any time either of us is talking garbage :-)  ((sorry, I thought I
> was.))
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My problem was that I first installed the Ubuntu package from the package
repository.  It worked fine, but there was the build confusion.  I removed
the package and then did a "make uninstall" to get it right.  I built it
from the source available in the web page and the demo plugin now loads and
seems fine.

I had another problem with building the add-ons, though.  After taking care
of the dependencies given by ./configure, I tried to get and build
the geany-plugins-0.18 files and many of the plugins refused to build
because of inaccessible header files.  I created a directory of
/usr/include/geany and copied the files from .../geany_svn/src/*.h there,
but there are still others that appear to be missing and that I don't have
installed anywhere.  The plugins that failed are:
# addons \
# geanydoc \
# geanylipsum \
# geanylua \
The others seem OK.  Sorry, I don't have time to give more information. :(
 I gotta think that this is probably a issue that has already been looked
at.

It looks like I have enough to get started on a macro recorder.  Am I
correct in thinking that the demo plugin has the correct message loop that I
want to tap into?

Thanks,
-=chuck=-
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